BalancePoint Features

Key Features

• Agentless Virtual Appliance: Self installable in less than an hour with OS, hyper-visor, server, SAN switch and storage data collection
• Application Workload to Storage Visualization: Automated mapping of physical and virtual servers and networked storage infrastructures
• Performance and Capacity Planning Analytics: Akorri unique Cross-Domain analytics for virtual machines, servers and storage
• Planning and Analysis Reporting: Cross-Domain Scorecards, capacity planning and chargeback reports
• Broad interoperability: Support for all major operating systems, hypervisors, servers, SAN switches and storage arrays
• Management Console Integration: VMware vCenter Server plug-in and Windows System Center integration

Agentless Virtual Appliance

Quickly and easily deploy BalancePoint into your physical and virtual IT infrastructure

BalancePoint's agentless design frees IT Administrators from the time consuming tasks of deploying and managing agents in order to collect performance and capacity statistics.  The BalancePoint software is easily deployed on an ESX virtual machine in less than an hour, with topology, analytics, reports and alerts generated 15 minutes after initial deployment.

Application Workload to Storage Visualization

Visualize storage to server infrastructure to quickly identify the root cause of poor performance

Only BalancePoint maps the relationships between application workloads, physical and virtual servers and the attached networked storage. The topology views are dynamically generated and visually identify points of contention and performance problems within your physical and virtual infrastructure.  BalancePoint greatly simplifies troubleshooting and eliminates the need for multiple monitoring tools typically used to isolate problems.

Performance and Capacity Planning Analytics

Cross-domain analytics which turns infrastructure statistics into actionable information

The key to BalancePoint’s ability to analyze interdependencies between resources in separate IT domains is it’s Cross-Domain Analytics™ technology.  These unique analytics provide key performance indicators, intelligent alerting and actionable recommendations which enable IT Administrator to quickly troubleshoot and isolate CPU, Memory and storage contention issues, proactively prevent performance and capacity problems and measure how efficiently their infrastructure resources are being utilized.

View a short presentation on Cross-Domain Analytics.

Planning and Analysis Reporting

Flexible reporting engine produces detailed Cross-Domain scorecards

BalancePoint includes an integrated and flexible reporting engine which automatically generates reports that saves administrators from hours of spreadsheet work.  Detailed Virtual Machine, Server, Storage, SAN and Applications scorecards summarize infrastructure statistics and unique Akorri analytics into a single cross-domain view.  Many other reports are available including Storage Tiering, Chargeback and VM Migration.

Broad Interoperability

Support for all major operating systems, hypervisors, storage arrays, SAN switches and servers.

A key market differentiator for BalancePoint is it’s deep storage interoperability combined with hypervisor and OS interoperability. BalancePoint  interoperates with all the major storage vendors including Dell EqualLogic,  EMC, HDS, HP, NetApp, IBM and 3PAR. It also supports all the major operating systems and hypervisors including AIX, HP/UX, Linux, Solaris, VMware and Windows.

Management Console Integration

BalancePoint integrates seamlessly into vCenter Server and Microsoft System Center

BalancePoint’s physical and virtual environment support complements existing management platforms from BMC, CA, HP and IBM.  It direct plugs into VMware’s vCenter Server to provide a seamless management interface and easily integrates into Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager.  Support is planned for Microsoft Hyper-V and all other major hypervisor technologies.